Every single person mentioned in Frimpong Boateng’s report will appear before us -Special Prosecutor
All former members of the government’s Inter-Ministerial Committee on illegal Mining (IMCIM) are the subjects of ongoing investigations into their suspected involvement in illegal mining activities, also known as galamsey, according to Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng.
The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) is currently looking into a report written by Prof. Frimpong-Boateng, the former chairman of the disbanded IMCIM, which named certain prominent individuals in the Akufo-Addo administration.
The OSP recently detained Prof. Frimpong-Boateng in order to question him about alleged corruption and crimes including corruption related to the operations of the disbanded committee.
The Special Prosecutor said in a Joy News interview that every person identified in the report will be regarded as a suspect.
“In the estimation of the Office, there are no saints,” Mr. Agyebeng said.
He explained that if he approached the fight against corruption with the mindset that there are people in society who are immune from corruption, the fight would be flawed.
“In fighting corruption, if there is the mindset that there are persons in society that have attained sainthood, we will lose the fight against corruption. Our mandate is to fight corruption and corruption-related issues. As for the number of people mentioned in the report, every single person is going to appear before us.”
The Special Prosecutor also questioned the public’s readiness to fight corruption and the willingness to allow the institutions mandated to fight corruption to do so freely.
“Are we ready to fight corruption and if we are ready to fight corruption, can we allow the institutions that have been set up to fight corruption to fight corruption?”
“Can we not consecrate people as saints and hand them to the Special Prosecutor that as far as we are concerned, this is the list of saints that have been consecrated and that these people cannot be questioned and considered as persons of interest to you no matter what.
